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Artist: Beach House
Album: Bloom
Label: Sub Pop
Beach House have always been about the creation and execution of a specific atmosphere and mood. That’s why so many critics, myself included, have such a hard time keeping the phrase “dream pop” out of reviews for their albums. It’s [...]
Continue Reading →Artist: Lower Dens
Album: Nootropics
Label: Ribbon Music
As amateur criticists and aspiring musical demagogues, it seems that those of us who pass judgment on an artist’s musical statement may be losing the ability to fully understand the words or phrases that we use in referencing certain musical styles or influences. [...]
Continue Reading →Artists: Father John Misty
Album: Fear Fun
Label: Sub Pop
J Tillman loves him some country rock. If that wasn’t obvious enough from his time in Fleet Foxes, a band that almost single-handedly brought the genre back from the bland acoustic hell [...]
Continue Reading →Artist: Retribution Gospel Choir
Album: The Revolution EP
Label: Sub Pop
There is absolutely nothing wrong with belting out “Jessie’s Girl” when you have the chance. We all want to rock out like Rick Springfield from time to time and the occasional karaoke or drunken sing-a-long [...]
Continue Reading →Artist: Lemonade
Album: Diver
Label: True Panther
Lemonade is a great name for this band for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it’s a great name for any band ever and I am amazed that it took 100,000 years more or less for bipedal hominids to [...]
Continue Reading →Artist: MV & EE
Album: Space Homestead
Label: Woodsist
MV & EE can’t seem to sit still long enough to enjoy the fruits of their prolific labors. As attested to by their close to 30 releases in the last ten years, they bounce around from cosmic-folk [...]
Continue Reading →Indie Concert Reviews
Artists: Iron & Wine, Bobby Long
Venue: The Tivoli Theatre, Chattanooga TN
Date: April 28, 2012
To paraphrase my brother at the Iron & Wine concert at the Tivoli Theatre in Chattanooga, TN last night: “It’s ballsy to start your show with a 9 minute b-side.”
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Continue Reading →Artist: Dylan Ettinger
Album: Lifetime Of Romance
Label: Not Not Fun
Not Not Fun Records has always seemed to be a very specific niche label to me. I’ve read some write-ups of the label that claim they peddle hypnagogic pop. A more accurate description would be to say that [...]
Continue Reading →Artist: Toro Y Moi
Album: June 2009
Label: Carpark Records
When you hear that an artist has gone back and officially compiled/re-released some of their early singles and tour only songs, it can seem to be just a quick cash grab and a sign of creative indifference. And with that in mind, it was [...]
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Artist: Grave Babies
Album: Gothdammit
Label: Hardly Art
Can an artist become so immersed in their influences that they lose sight of their own musical identity? Does that need to pay homage to those bands you admire come at the cost of something unique and original? It’s a fine [...]
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Indie Concert Reviews
Artists: The Magnetic Fields, Devotchka
Venue: The Variety Playhouse, Atlanta GA
Date: April 14, 2012
For weeks I’d been reading and hearing about The Magnetic Fields touring the US in support of their latest record Love At The Bottom Of The Sea. These shows were stripped down [...]
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Artist: Oberhofer
Album: Time Capsules II
Label: Glassnote
There are records which take time to reveal themselves, to ingratiate themselves into the listeners mind. These can be dense genre exercises or simply an album by a band you’re not all that familiar with. Last years Black Up by Shabazz [...]
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